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If I get an email in 2011 asking if I'd like to be part of Ö÷²¥´óÐã Radio Scotland's motivation season I'm going to politely decline. Or perhaps I might just motivate myself to eat more chocolate, try some new wines or finally watch The Sopranos.
One thing I won't do is foolishly sign up to something that's causing me more grief and stress than anything I've ever had to do at work. Over the years I've had to stand up in front of 14 thousand women and talk, I've interviewed some of the world's grumpiest pop stars, got stranded on a boat up the Mekong Delta and I've fronted a hogmanay show in Edinburgh that was such a disaster that The Sun called it 'Nightmare in Princes Street'.
However none of those experiences have been as much of an ordeal as learning to dance as part of A New Year, A New You. It's honestly one of the most difficult and challenging things I've attempted.
Streetdance is my chosen art form and it's (according to my dance teacher Jackie) all about being loose around the hips. This has proved to be a struggle for me. I'm from the North East of Scotland. Being loose around the hips is not something that comes naturally to folk like us.
Last week's lesson was almost enough to finish me off and if it wasn't for the fact that I'd promised the 'head of motivation' I'd do this then I would have given up.
However, today I realised that if you keep banging away at something then there's a good chance that eventually you're going to get good at it. Today's lesson was proof that all those evenings spent watching Glee have not been wasted. I finally found my dance mojo. Ok I'm not moving like Michael Jackson but I have been able to throw a few convincing moves to music, and perhaps more impressively I used the word 'flava' in a sentence. It's a massive step.
I still have an awful long way to go though and my initial target of learning to dance by the end of January has had to be revised. End of February perhaps? Watch this space.
If you want a bit of encouragement to keep going with your own resolution then don't forget to check out our motivation season homepage.